Cooking stove or range



(No Model.)

J. A. PRICE. cooKNG sToVE 0R RANGE.-

No. 278,267. Patenfed'May 22,1883.

Zvztwasscs M6/7% ton, in the county of Lackawanna and StateV Y, UNIT-1313,;S'TATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PPtICE, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING sTOfvt: OR RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No". '278,26'7, dated May Application filed December 15, i882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN A. PRICE, of Scranof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ranges; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention consists in certain novel improvements in ranges, which I will first describe, and then point out particularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

Referring to the accompanyingdrawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of a range provided with my improvements; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section ofthe same; Fig. 3, a detail view of the shelf and/rangeback, showing the shelf turned down so as to present its narrowest supporting-surface; and Fig. 4 is a front view of the shelf and rangeback.

Similar letters of reference in the several figures denote the same parts. r

Arepresents the top of the range, having the openings 1 2 3 4, closed by removable covers, as usual. In ranges asordinarily.constructed the smoke and other volatile products of combustion are taken off either through a pipe leading from an opening in the top of the stove, near the rear thereof, and extending directly up into the chimneyhue, or through a pipe leading from an opening at the rear of the stove, below the top thereof; but in my present invention I locate the dischargeopen- -ing B of the range in the top of the range, near the rear thereof, and place over such dischargeopening a box or chamber, C, which extends backward behind the permanent back E of the range, as shown, and connects with a flue, D, adapted to discharge into the chimney-flue proper. My object in adopting this arrangement of ues and permanent backris two-fold, namely: First, the rangeis thereby adapted to fit into an ordinary fire-place, and to discharge the smoke, &c., direct up the chimney-flue without special adaptation ofthe latter, differing in this respect from those ranges in which the smoke-discharge is through an opening at the back of the stove, below the top surface thereof, and which require a special`constructionof chimney-flue; and, secondly, by employing a permanent range-back, E, anddischarging the smoke, Ste., from the opening in the top of the range proper int-othe box or chamber C, and directing such smoke, &c.,by the saidbox or chamber behind the permanent back and into the flue D, which leads up the chim ney, I am enabled to connect a swinging shelf to the front of the permanent back, as will be hereinafter more fully described, my construction diii'erin g in this respect fromthose ranges which have a smoke-discharge openingin the top near the rear, with which is connected a pipe leading directly up the chimney-ii ue, for in such ranges no swinging shelf can be employed, because the smoke-pipe will interfere with its swinging motion.

To suitable lugs, k, on the front ofthe permanent range-backis hin ged a shelf, K, such as above referred to. This shelf, when raised, is adapted to be supported byaswinging bracket,

L, mounted on bearings on the range-back and. capable of being swung out or in, as required, By preference I extend the shelf K so that it will project beyond or iiush with the rear side of the range-back, and form upon or connect to it a plate, M, which, when the shelf is swung up, as represented in Fig. 2, serves as a backing thereto, as seen at m; `but when said shelf is swung down it (said plate M) continues a supporting-shelf, though narrower than shelf K, an angle-piece, n, forming a backing to it.

It will be seen by this arrangement that a supporting-shelf of greater or less width can be provided above the range, as desired, for the purpose of keeping warm cooked dishes, plates, or other articles; also, that by reason of the shelf K being hinged to the front of the range-back its motion is notinterfered with at all by the smoke pipe or ilue, as would be the case were the latter located in front instead of behind the range-back. Where the narrow shelf M is employed I preferably cut it away at the rear, so as not to obstruct the flue D.

`Although I show in the drawings thechamber C, provided at the .top with a removable plate, F, and a swinging plate or shelf, and at the front with an opening closed byea hinged valve, H, opened by the expansion and contraction of u rod or tube, I, I do not nia-ke claim to any of such features herein, though l reserve the right to claim the seme in a future application.

Having thus desciibed my invention, Iclnim as newl. The combination, with the range having thesmoke-dischnrgeopeninginits t0p,nenr the rear, the permanent range-back, and the box or chamber connecting the discharge-opening and directing the smoke, 85e., to the tine behind Jthe permanent range-back, of a. hinged shelf hinged to the front ofthe permanent range-back, the Whole arranged and operatin g substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the range-back,

of the pivoted shelves, arranged ait substantially right angles to each other, and the supporting-bracket, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with e stove or range having aback plate extending up labove its top, and a shelf projecting forward from said back plate over the top, of aue extending rear- Werdly from a. sm0kedscharge opening in the top to e point behind the back plate, where it connects with n smoke-fine proper, substantially as described.

JOHN A. PRICE.

Vi tnesses :V

A. C. FULLER, A. R. ROBERTS. 

